Magic pranks


Pathfinder First Edition General Discussion


ok awesome plot line for a slightly non serious adventure

the pcs must convince two wizards to help them this can be any thing getting information receiving an item what have you

the catch is the wizards occupy two corners of the same town
and will only help if u make the other look bad

this starts a prank war between two wiZards

on list so far is

bag holding full of dirt: empty this bag in the other guy workshop

sack bones: throw bones all over yard tell ppl the he turning to necromancy

and coating spell book with equivlant magic super glue (forgot proper name for item was in 3,5 book i seen)

and so on any more great idea guys


animate there furniture

girdle of opposite gender

casting an alter self spell on him while he sleeps to look some how silly, maybe one wizard give the PC a wand to use.

summon a swarm of some harmless insect and cover the other lawn


The smitter wrote:

animate there furniture

girdle of opposite gender

casting an alter self spell on him while he sleeps to look some how silly, maybe one wizard give the PC a wand to use.

summon a swarm of some harmless insect and cover the other lawn

l like that lol


Turn a bear into a frog and leave it for the princess to kiss...

Silver Crusade

Someone has been reading Oglaf.

Put a potion into on wizard's beard that animates it.

Animate parts of his staircase

Walk around town disguised as him and act like an idiot.

Walk around town disguised as him and act all superior.

Walk around town disguised as both wizards and have one talk about how much better the other wizard is.


  • Explosive runes in children's school books. You should see their faces. They're over there on the wall.

  • Symbol of insanity on insecure artists' paintings so that when they ask others to tell them what they feel, the people will start shrieking uncontrollably, tear their hair out and inflict damage upon themselves. That should shatter his confidence completely.

  • Illusionary floors. Over pits of manure. This is a fair one because if you cannot smell that, it won't affect you that much.

  • Irresistable dance on animals trapped in bear traps. Being in agony is no reason not to be cheerful.

  • Put a hex on a spellcaster's familiar so it hates its master.
  • As above, except with murderous urges.

  • Replace a spellcaster's magical foci and material components with convincing but unusable replicas.
    And gifts meant for planar-bound outsiders. Especially those.

    I'm supplying ideas to Winter. If you want the Summer stuff, you need look somewhere else.


  • Animate script of a book to run away (illusion).

    Carefully cut and rearrange pages of a spellbook.

    Change labels on reagent bottles.

    Move the entrance to his house or just seal the old one with a wall of stone.

    Use prestidigitation to create all manner of flimsy items to replace real ones in the household.

    Permanent image of a naked and particularly defficient image of the wizard on town square... or in the window of a room he doesn't use much.

    Dust of sneezing and coughing in his sneeshing box.

    Itching dust on wizards's seat at the table, especially when guests are comming.

    Extra strong reagents instead of the usual ones.

    Replace scrolls or spell book with childern's fairytale pictures or pictures of naked men/women to be pulled out and cause embarrassing situations... or to place an illusioon of them for everyone to see.

    Transparent clothes. Or regular holes covered with illusion to be dismissed at the right occasion.

    Adding an enchantment on wizard's favourite item. Adding something extra, but making the item intelligent and particularly annoying as well.

    EDIT: Scroll of Explosive Runes. Of course that the runes are already cast on the scroll, rather than being ready to be cast, or perhaps both, so that the aura on the scroll doesn't give away the spell. The same can be done with sepia snake sigil.

    Bag of tricks replaced with a normal bag covered by magic aura and an actual angry critter inside.

    Bag of tricks replaced with a different one, just changed colour (a mouse instead of elephant may look like the obvious choice, but imagine the result if the opposite bag was used inside his house or laboratory).

    Reagent pouch replaced with tranglefoot bag.

    Thunderstone on a chair (bah, farting pads are weak).

    Kindling wood filled with smokesticks.

    Wall of force placed in the middle of the room (remember it's invisible).

    All manner of grease applications. Watch him trying to cut into a greased puding with a dull spoon and then to keep it on it. especially with people around.

    A pitch black ball hanged from the ceiling just above his bed while he sleeps.


    karkon wrote:


    Walk around town disguised as him and act like an idiot.

    Walk around town disguised as him and act all superior.

    Walk around town disguised as both wizards and have one talk about how much better the other wizard is.

    That reminds me of something a certain insane gnome did in a campaign once: We needed to infiltrate the city's leadership, so we found one some official and the gnome magic jarred him. Glad in his new body, he went to the guy's best friend (another bigwig) and talked to him. I'm not sure what exactly he did, whether he tried to get information out of him or acted all differently and made some threads the city had to do.

    He ended with: "Oh, and I've been sleeping with your wife" and teleported out of there. He gave back the body.

    Too bad we weren't there when the guy, back in his own body, went to his "friend" to tell him that something's amiss. The guy was pretty irate.


    use antimagic field and hide behind his back.

    impregnate his familiar and make the outcome look half-human (wizard).

    Ressurect his father (as a zombie).

    Make a neighbour testify that the magic rays have caused his cancer.

    Make it a classic:
    pins or poison in his soup, a wizard who is tired of checking his soup is tired of life. (on discworld at least)


    while the mage is out...
    Sneak in and nail all his furniture to the ceiling.
    Also take all the ceiling fixtures and place them on the floor.

    The mage will waste days trying to reverse/cancel the "magic."


    break into his house and steal all of his furniture. Replace it all with an identical illusion.


    Sneak a portable hole into an item he regularily puts into a bag of holding.


    Hire an Assasin to kill him.


    Hide hookers in his bag of holding...

    What?

    Sczarni

    cast Shield on the toilet

    grease has alot of uses as well :)


    Ironicdisaster wrote:

    Hide hookers in his bag of holding...

    Better yet, Hide DEAD hookers in his bag of holding.


    Create LOTS and LOTS of simacrulms of him. Have them do embarassing drudge work that most people don't want do do, like cleaning the outhouses etc.

    The locals will love their new "automotons." If he destroys them he'll be hated. He'll be the new face of poo cleaners. it'll put him in a fantastic catch 22 situation.

    If memory serves grease cannot be made permanent, but it should be allowed. If you can talk your DM into allowing it than cast grease on EVERYTHING he owns. Home,welcome mat, furniture, familiar, wands, staves, material componets, shoes, underwear, even his body while he sleeps.


    it's supposed to be a prank, I can't see killing him, or killing hookers as that "pranky". But I love most of the other stuff.

    All wizards have secrets, give him a cursed objects that forces him to tell the truth.


    Latean wrote:

    cast Shield on the toilet

    +1


    Stone of weight ;-)


    Kalyth wrote:
    Ironicdisaster wrote:

    Hide hookers in his bag of holding...

    Better yet, Hide DEAD hookers in his bag of holding.

    Put live hookers in the bag wait ten minutes...

    They will be dead at that time.


    Richard Leonhart wrote:

    it's supposed to be a prank, I can't see killing him, or killing hookers as that "pranky". But I love most of the other stuff.

    All wizards have secrets, give him a cursed objects that forces him to tell the truth.

    Agreed. Pranks =/= death.

    Also magic is not the only way to play pranks.
    Mundane pranks will vex the mage more.

    How about the cheesy classics?
    Flaming bag of poo, knock on door, run like hell.
    TP his tower.
    etc...


    Steal his familiar ala stealing the rival teams mascot?


    Convince thieves/lower level mages that one of the wizards is carrying a very powerful artifact (something mundane) that would end their existence if he saw them trying to take it. Then sit back and watch them do stupid things, trying to obtain something useless.


    Animate his clothes to writhe or fall down at an unexpected moment.

    Animate all shoes and boots to run away from him.

    Try to do the same with the chamberpot.

    Replace the shield in the toilet with a wind wall and perhaps put the shield below it to prevent the smell giving away whole thing.

    Cast audible alarm on his animal pen.

    Polymorph his familiar into an attractve woman and change it back when there are others to see. Wizard's sexual orientation will be in people's mouths for quite some time.

    Turn all keys and door handles in the house invisible, remove all such equipment from the toilet door, arcane lock it and add some slow acting laxative to his dinner.

    Equip his bag of holding with a set of false teeth.


    Cast magic mouth on his component belt to sing "99 bottles of beer" or "Henry the 8th"

    Grow plants to poison ivy his underwear

    Animate a zombie who claims it was his dead wife/hooker

    Enchant his front door into an intelligent item that doesnt like him much

    Order alot of some weird expensive substance in his name. On the order for, claim its for a spell component. (alternative of crank ordering pizzas)

    polymorph familiar into a halfling; dress it up as a child; cast some really nasty aspersions as to the mage's orientation

    stitch glyphs into robe that read various insults in celestial and infernal (including "this space for rent" on hat)


    cast Sympathy one of the towers, for Pink flamingos.

    Hire 25 gnomes to stand very still in one of there lawns

    plant a bunch of saplings then cast plant growth on them, intent forest in there lawn.

    Cast invisibility on there tower and then put an Illusion of it some where else.

    Put a for sale sign on it and then run an open house while he is way (you can try this on for real, pretty funny)

    this is my new favorite thread


    *Summon a giant frog onto his breakfast table, then quickly summon one into his fridge, summon a frog at his door, on each of his window pains, in his toilet, in his bathtub, on his roof, cast them and aim them in his line of sight, keep summoning them, do it each day, after a few days alter self into a boggard and knock on his door thanking him for babysitting and pick up one of the frogs, then tell him the other parents will be here soon to pick up theirkids.

    *Cast blur on his clothing, staff, anything he uses regularly, making him suffer a 20% miss chance each time he wants to grab it.

    *cast animate rope on his shoelaces regularly and command them to tie themselves together.

    *cast mirror image on everything in his house, including his familiar, making him think his eyesight is going.

    *mage hand/unseen servant to pull his pants down/lift his robe when walking through town

    *presdigitation, dye his robe bright pink

    *Alarm on his house each time he leaves.

    *Magic Aura and hide his magical components around the house, making them non magical, or making them seem like another type of aura, confusing him.

    *Hire a pugwumpi to sit hide somewhere near his workroom, I hate those little things as a player

    *cause fear on people as he is talking to them.

    *fill his pillow with glitterdust and leave the ends open, making it puff out when he lays on it.
    *also fill his mattress with the stuff.

    *presidigitation on his face making it bright green/pink/yellow/etc.


    "create food" to fill his shoes with yogurt
    Summon Monster I target: inside his shorts

    Fill his coinpurse with lead slugs illusioned to look like gps. Let him get in trouble for ripping people off

    cast "grow" on his hat (and just his hat) while he's wearing it.

    Shadow Lodge

    When he orders a drink presdigitate the taste to something like Manure or Rotten Eggs or cod liver oil.

    When he eats something use presdigitate to change the taste into something else.

    Feed him rare delicacies like rotten goblin eye balls that have been altered by illusion to taste,smell,touch and look like grapes.

    Replace his water with grain alcohol that has been presdigitated to taste and smell like water.

    Post fake wanted posters with his face on them and a massive bounty for taking him alive.


    dave.gillam wrote:

    cast "grow" on his hat (and just his hat) while he's wearing it.

    Wizarding Father: Don't you think that hat is a little big?

    Wizarding Mother: Don't worry, he'll enlarge person into it!


    Ekeebe wrote:
    dave.gillam wrote:

    cast "grow" on his hat (and just his hat) while he's wearing it.

    Wizarding Father: Don't you think that hat is a little big?

    Wizarding Mother: Don't worry, he'll enlarge person into it!

    +1


    hexa3 wrote:
    Ekeebe wrote:
    dave.gillam wrote:

    cast "grow" on his hat (and just his hat) while he's wearing it.

    Wizarding Father: Don't you think that hat is a little big?

    Wizarding Mother: Don't worry, he'll enlarge person into it!

    +1

    Lol, +1


    Put an invisible caltrop on his favorite chair.

    Put alchemical itching powder in his robes when he takes a bath.

    Cast illusions of the wizard having inappropriate relations with cattle in the town market (where everyone can see).

    First use sovereign glue to hold his chamber pot to the floor under the bed, then put an alchemical laxitive in his food.

    Have an unseen servent use the door knocker/gong etc.at his home every 15 mins. starting at midnight.

    Use Prestidigitation to cover him with garish make-up and change his hair to strange colors while he sleeps.

    Cast a programmed illusion of demons attacking his tower on his crystal ball. (it goes off when he uses it).

    Charm a minotaur of the opposite sex from the wizard. Have the minotaur go knock on the wizards door. Have the Minotaur take an Elixir of Love with it to drink right before knocking.

    Toss Smokesticks down his chimneny and cover it with a piece of tarp to prevent the smoke from escaping.

    While the wizard sleeps, place an open Portable Hole (half full of water) besides his bed where his slippers are. Cast Darkness, then blow a battle horn as loudly as you can in his room...then run like hell.


    Arcane mark "Im a dork" in common on his forehead.

    Ghost sound his mother's voice yelling at him to not forget his golashes every time he leaves the tower

    walk behind him invisible. Every time he sneezes (or something) cast Color Spray. Have the Rogue tell everyone its a highly contagious magical disease


    dave.gillam wrote:


    walk behind him invisible. Every time he sneezes (or something) cast Color Spray. Have the Rogue tell everyone its a highly contagious magical disease

    Best one yet.

    Lantern Lodge

    Kalyth wrote:
    Ironicdisaster wrote:

    Hide hookers in his bag of holding...

    Better yet, Hide (UN)DEAD hookers in his bag of holding.

    Fixed


    Ooooh ok. Where to start.

    -Replace his pants with a pair that upon him sitting down change their colour to purple, cast prestidigitation on him to change his skin green and cast enlarge person on him.

    - Above the door to his tower put a bucket of sovereign glue. When he exits, the glue falls on him and the bucket casts summon swarm on him

    - Mix a bit of sovereign glue in with his spellbook ink. Wait until he tries to re-open it. Laugh.

    - rig his pillow to cast dawn 30 minutes after he lies down every night.

    - Enchant his bed to teleport him into the town square every night.

    My rooommate and I came up with dozens, but those are just the ones that came to mind immediately.

    If I remember more I'll post them.


    CaptainSockPuppet wrote:

    Ooooh ok. Where to start.

    -Replace his pants with a pair that upon him sitting down change their colour to purple, cast prestidigitation on him to change his skin green and cast enlarge person on him.

    This is my favorite so far. If you added the rage spell it'd be even more fun.

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